What goes on the home page?
June 1st, 2006
To follow up with John’s last post, one of the things we’re still debating here at Sutori, is, what goes on the home page? John suggested one of the things that might determine a home page slot for a story: One that has a high ‘Agree’ votes, relative to its ‘Disagree’ score.
Some other ideas include:
- “Controversial” stories - ones that have both lots of Agree and Disagree votes
- “Popular” stories - ones that have been visited a lot
- “Commented” stories - ones that generate alot of comments and discussions
- “Interesting” stories - some combination of all the above, through some magic algorithm
What do you think, gentle readers? Which of the above do you think should drive the Sutori home page? Do you have any other ideas we haven’t thought of? Leave us a comment!
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1. Ben Yoskovitz | June 1st, 2006 at 9:55 pm
To me it depends on what’s the *most important thing* about sutori.
If it’s discussion/community building, then you’d go with “commented” stories.
If it’s controversy, then you might go with “controversial” stories.
Depending on the layout, you could do both.
Services like digg go with a “voting” system that basically brings stories of interest to the top. You might consider going with total votes at the beginning, which could be considered an indication of popularity.
Going with “comments” might not have the same impact because people are less likely to comment (at least at the beginning) as they are to “vote”.
2. Anthony | June 7th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
I think there should be room for all of the above, in the form of lists, etc.
Agree with the comment above but you could also rotate it around based on different criteria so it wasn’t always using the same algorithm; or not even using always the “top ranked” but a random item from one of the top 10 or so ranked articles by different categories.
You might want to keep the algorithm hidden though as if/when people figure it out they will try and artifically boost an article’s score…
3. Scott Abel | June 8th, 2006 at 7:12 am
How about user generated stories — experiences from real customers AND real customer service personnel in the trenches. Both audiences could share the details of their horrible customer service misadventures.
4. Andrew | June 8th, 2006 at 11:26 am
I’d vote for whatever type of content (controversial, commented, interesting) users determine to be most interesting based on the content rating. Having re-read the question it seems this would be the story with the highest degree of ‘agreement’ in lue of a numerical rating. Maybe some fancy math could be applied to combine the factors listed above…
5. clay | July 25th, 2006 at 1:36 am
Perhaps the front page can have a chart that dynamically shows brands sinking and rising based on the collective weighting of the audience.
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